Posted
by
ScuttleMonkey
on Monday January 22, 2007 @06:15PM
from the smokin dept.

Andreas writes "There are always those who are willing to take things one step further than others. A group of guys known as OC Team Italy is one of them. They recently pushed an Intel Pentium 4 631 to over 8000MHz using an ASUS P5B with modified voltage regulation and liquid nitrogen. Overclocking is cool and all, but this extends beyond what some would perhaps call useful. Still a milestone though."

I think the whole cooking aspect of P4s is way under-explored. Sure, everybody knows you can cook an egg with one, but has anybody used one to heat a wok, for example? Silicon stir fry! On a more realistic note, those processors could be great for sous-vide [wikipedia.org] cooking if they are water cooled.

Digg?You mean Duck!That place has comment moderation down to an art!One person spams, he gets modded down, but them the 400 replies all telling him he is being blocked are left modded up (because users would see it as a slight and have an argument about why they got downmodded and that will get upmodded and eventually you get to the next actual reply of something and some other fucker jumps in the way and it all starts again.

...in its exceedingly fast speed, it developed AI and became aware. It quickly started amassing great stores of knowledge and began solving many previously unsolvable problems of the world, and then suddenly went silent and refused to respond to any further input...

I always thought that it was cool to have those texts in the smoke packs. We also have "smoking cauces lung cancer" here in Finland. I was secretly hoping the next patch of punchlines would include "with these you do ugly and horrible death" and "these are the nails in your coffin". Also Alcohol definately needs its own warning labels. Imagine a Carlsberg with a text "no free buddies at AA".

Actually there is a way to get around the whole 'speed of light' issue - don't use light.Yea, the 'photonic computer' guys didn't think that one all the way through, did they?

Use electricity instead, have it run on little traces cut in silicon like the old days, but then seal the silicon in a dark ceramic casing so no light gets in, and put the whole thing in a computer case WITHOUT the clear panels - have to keep out the light.

Light is fast, no doubt, but it is measurably fast (186,000 miles per second, as I recall) - but regular electricity running in the dark across wires (or traces on silicon)... now that is 'hauling ass fast', also known as immeasurably fast. When you turn on a light by flipping a switch - the light takes a measurable amount of time to get to you, but when does the light actually turn on? The instant you flip that switch - ahhh, the magic of electricity running at immeasurable speeds over wire.

Think about it - every scientist in the past century has measured the speed of light - but how many have been able to measure the speed of electricity in a wire?None?Bingo!

And what kind of tools do they use to measure the speed of light?Electronic tools made with electricity running on wires?Bingo!

Indeed, we here in NZ are getting those images on packets soon. I can't see it discouraging existing smokers much however.. Maybe if they printed photos of our Prime minister [pbs.org], hell, I'd quit.

The cpu will access all memory locations at the same time, nearly causing a bus contention; and after they clock it back down to normal speed the ALUs will slowly begin to revert to those resembling the ones on the i4004.